Where is our President?

SIR: Recent happenings in our nation have led to the question, where is President Buhari? The answer remains a deafening silence. A lot of drama has been unfolding and revealing itself since the inception of this administration. Hardly would a day pass by that we won’t be inundated with corruption cases from public officials and institutions. And Nigerians have begun asking the change they voted for?

The emergence of President Buhari was welcomed as a great departure from the ugly past and many thought his coming would cleanse our polity of the hydra headed monster called corruption but with the drama unfolding from the top, many Nigerians are asking, where is the change they promised us?

On September 13, Governor Nyesom Wike held a press conference alleging that the head of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Rivers State was behind series of armed robbery incidents and kidnapping in the state with evidence of a picture of a SARS member allegedly gunned down in an operation by the squad of IG of police. The governor alleged that the SARS commander was planted in the state to sabotage the security architecture and create an atmosphere of fear and called on the Inspector General of Police and the federal government to stop playing politics with crime and save Rivers State from insecurity. The Inspector General of police waved the allegations aside while describing the allegation as nonsense. Since Governor Wike made the implicating allegation against the Nigerian police, people have been asking – where is President Buhari?

The Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) has been in the news for the wrong reasons. The relationship between the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu and the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) Dr. Maikanti Bello has gone sour after a letter written to the President by Kachukwu was leaked to the press alleging unprofessional conduct against the Group Managing Director, NNPC which includes the award of contract worth billions of dollars without following due process, and other acts of insubordination.

At the presidency, there are several allegations the seat of the president has been hijacked by a powerful cabal who decide who or what they want the president to see or give approval. People are still asking about the outcome of the probe of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal over the involvement of his companies in controversial contracts involving Internally Displaced Persons, IDP in the North-east.

The issue of insecurity and the killer Fulani herdsmen and the wanton killing of people are still national issues yet to be curbed and the APC-led federal government.

As the drama continues to unravel, Nigerians are watching in disbelief, the body language of President Buhari. One question has continued to reverberate across the country is – where is President Buhari?